As part of the doctoral summer school at the Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-loop at TU Dresden, I was invited to give a lecture titled “Engaging with e-static textiles” and share insights from my doctoral research project. More here:…
Read MoreExhibition: 22 Jan–28 Feb 2021 @ designtransfer, Vorspiel transmediale 2021
designtransfer presents in the context of Vorspiel transmediale (15.01–28.03) online projects by students and alumni of UdK and in the outside showcase Einsteinufer 43 the installation “Engaging with e-static textiles” by Ramyah Gowrishankar.
Read MorePublished doctoral thesis “Engaging with e-static textiles”
My doctoral thesis “Engaging with e-static textiles: An investigation into textile interaction design for shaping body-driven energy harvesting in the interior” is now published and available to view and download at https://doi.org/10.25624/kuenste-1357
Read MorePhD Defense 10.11.2020
I successfully defended my doctoral thesis titled “Engaging with e-static textiles: An investigation into textile interaction design for shaping body-driven energy harvesting in the interior.” on 10 Nov 2020 at the UdK.
Read MorePublication @ ISWC 2017: Constructing triboelectric textiles with weaving
R. Gowrishankar, “Constructing triboelectric textiles with weaving” in Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers – ISWC ’17, 2017, pp. 170–171.
Read MoreBook Chapter in “Smart Textiles Fundamentals, Design and Interaction” 2017
R. Gowrishankar, K. Bredies, and S. Ylirisku, “A Strategy for Material-Specific e-Textile Interaction Design,” in Smart Textiles Fundamentals, Design, and Interaction, S. Schneegass and O. Amft, Eds. Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 233–257.
Read MoreArcInTex ETN project
Since August 2015, I have joined the ArcInTex ETN project as a Research Fellow – a EU level project investigating the intersections of Architecture, Interaction Design and Textiles. I am based at the Design research Lab in UdK, Berlin.
Read MoreConference paper at Ambience 2014, Tampere Finland
Conference paper titled “Investigating Interaction Design for e-Textiles Using Case-Transfer” co-authored by Katharina Bredies at AMBIENCE14.
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